"I think that new emotions and new feelings are being created, that modern technology is beginning to reach into our dreams and change our whole way of looking at things and perceiving reality... that more and more modern technology is drawing us away from contemplating ourselves to contemplating its world." -J. G. Ballard

I don’t believe anymore good arguments can change something in people’s head. I don’t believe anymore in Rationality as a driving social force. We’re hardwired to hang to our misconceptions. See this Atlantic article for a starter. “Having social support, from an evolutionary standpoint, is far more important than knowing the truth.” Pascal Boyer

Zoom has caught a lot of (deserving) flack for insecurity, which inaugurated the pandemic with an epidemic of "zoombombing" by trolls. Things got worse when we learned the company had lied about its encryption.

But since then, the company has made great strides in improving its security, including adding real, end-to-end encryption to its meetings (for paid customers). This means that no one, not even Zoom itself, can spy on those meetings without an invitation.

COVID and all of the lynchings have revealed how much the cops *like* murdering people.

Murders by cops did not decrease through COVID even though the number of people outside decreased drastically. Even "crime" (as formulated by classist white supremacist society) decreased 40% during COVID lockdowns, but murders by cops did not decrease.

They like killing, y'all. We got a bunch of paid sadists on the streets.

“Bernie failed us [...] and we don't have any time left [...] things are deteriorating at rate that even climate scientists never predicted. We can't fool around.... Do we vote for Biden? Do we vote for Trump? Given the ecocide that is before us and the economical devastation that is weeks and months away, these kinds of questions are kind of absurd [...] We have to begin [...] to shut the damned system down and even that may not work.”